Apigee in the News

Global technology corporation Fujitsu, one of the largest IT suppliers in the world, has selected Apigee Edge to support its own internal IT transformation through the use of application programming interface (API) based shared data and services.

Apigee has opened up API Studio, a free online tool for creating, testing and sharing APIs. API Studio is based on the Swagger Editor, which is a familiar tool for designing APIs in YAML. Apigee connects API Studio with a back-end server running in the cloud and providing mock responses to API requests. These mocked endpoints are automatically generated and updated as the API specification is edited.

For developers who want to expose their Web applications to other computers and Internet services, API platform vendor Apigee is offering a free online tool to help create APIs using the increasingly popular Swagger API specification.

Underwriters today initiated coverage of Apigee (APIC), which makes software and runs cloud services for a kind of “middleware” software to connect Web-based applications, and which went public on April 24th.

The level of publicity surrounding robo-advisory services has led to a pipeline of firms looking for quick ways to build and take proprietary robo-advisory offerings to market, according to one cloud-based platform provider. "Robo-advisors are the greatest use case of how APIs and the digitization structure really kicks in," said Dan Raju, co-founder, chairman and CEO of Tradier, an API-based brokerage platform.

This week’s episode of Coders features Greg Brail, Chief Architect for Apigee. Brail talked about the importance of API’s for developers looking to take their apps to market. Specifically, API’s now enable developers to directly tap into the power of telecom networks as never before.

What do Uber (taxi services), Airbnb (lodging services), Facebook (social networking), Alibaba (e-commerce), and Paypal (online payment) have in common? The obvious things include: All of them drive their core operations on internet platforms and have astronomically high valuations without any notable physical assets. Not so apparent, however, is the fact that they excel at using Application Program Interfaces (APIs) to drive competitive advantage.

Wave after wave of IT has introduced a level of disruption unparalleled in history. But these challenges present enormous opportunities. At the center of everything? Connected devices and the Internet of things.